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Award-winning journalist and writer Francesca Steele talks to authors about their experiences of rejection, from self-doubt to books not selling, and how they get past it. Hosted on Acast. S...
Since releasing this episode in January, Pineapple Street, now out in the UK, has become a New York Times bestseller! Enjoy! --- Jenny Jacks...
If you want to write domestic fiction I cannot recommend reading Tessa Hadley, or indeed listening to her here, enough. Tessa, who has been...
Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of six novels including Less and Less is Lost, which are both bittersweet, tragicomic...
Monica Heisey is the author of the very funny Really Good, Actually, which just came out a week ago and became an instant Sunday times bests...
Last year, Alan Garner became the oldest person ever to be shortlisted for the Booker prize, at the age of 87, for his novel Treacle Walker....
Jenny Jackson’s forthcoming novel Pineapple Street is one of the best books I’ve read in the last year, but Jenny is also a Vice President a...
Good news for Peep Show fans! I am so delighted to have Robert Webb on the podcast today. Rob's memoir How Not To Be A Boy is one of my favo...
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw’s book of deliciously vibrant and rebellious short stories about sex and black women navig...
I am on a little break from Season 3 for Christmas this week, but I thought you might enjoy a replay of my interview with Meg Mason in July...
Who deserves to be a writer? When Sarah Turner was in her early twenties she had a baby, found it challenging and, unable to find writing on...
My guest this week is so well-known that his unfinished manuscripts and first drafts have been displayed at the National Library of Scotland...
My guest today is the fabulous Bonnie Garmus! Despite wanting to be a writer all her life, Bonnie’s debut Lessons in Chemistry was published...
It’s hard to express quite how much I love Liane Moriarty's writing. I have read all of her books, some of them many times, and I just think...
You probably know David Duchovny from decades on our screens as the FBI agent Fox Mulder in The X-Files and the TV show Californication, as...
This interview has a special place in my heart because Joanne Harris, the prolific author known for the gorgeous Chocolat, among other thing...
Jeffrey Archer is a bit different from many of my usual guests. He’s not at all sentimental, he’s very confident – I mean this is a former M...
I loved talking to Abi Elphinstone, a bestselling children’s author who writes about dreamsnatchers and sky gods and wildcats. She has been...
Chris Paling, a BBC radio producer, had an auspicious start as a writer, accidentally stumbling across a very starry agent with his first at...
If you don’t already know Sandra Newman, you are going to be hearing a lot about her in the next year or so. Her new book, The Men, about a...
When The Girl on the Train came out in 2015 and went straight to number one on global bestseller lists Paula Hawkins was pitched like a debu...
I find this interview so inspiring. Matt Cain is a successful arts journalist and at the time of his first book submission he was Culture Ed...
Welcome back! Clare Chambers is kicking off this season. Clare has written nine published novels - her first when she was just 26 and her la...
What do you do when you've written an entire book you hate? Martha, the narrator or Sorrow and Bliss, is intelligent, critical, loving, crue...
What a year the Booker prize winning author Douglas Stuart has had. Born on a housing estate in Glasgow Douglas and his siblings were raised...
The Booker longlisted, Women’s Prize shortlisted Michèle Roberts is, like her books, wonderfully erudite, perceptive and expressive. Michèle...
The British novelist Alex Wheatle has such an extraordinary backstory that when he was working in the writers’ room for Steve McQueen’s BAFT...
Ann Napolitano is the author of three novels, including Dear Edward, which spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and whic...
Julian Fellowes is, of course, rather well known for creating a little TV series you might have heard of called Downton Abbey. And that wasn...
My guest this week is Phoebe Morgan, the author of four books and Editorial Director at HarperCollins. Phoebe's first book, The Doll House,...
My guest this week is Harry Parker, a writer and artist who had a very interesting route to becoming an author. Harry is an army veteran who...
My guest this week is Katherine Heiny, who I’m happy to report is as funny in person and she is on the page. When I first approached Katheri...
Andy Weir is best known for his novel The Martian, a very clever and funny book about an astronaut stranded on Mars, which was made into a (...
Anna Hope has written three very successful novels, the last of which, Expectation, was published to much fanfare in 2019 and which has been...
Welcome to Write-Off with Francesca Steele, a podcast about writing rejection in all its forms, from self-doubt to books not selling, and ho...